Largest islands of the world

area*

name location sq mi sq km

Greenland North Atlantic Ocean 822,700 2,130,800

New Guinea Papua New Guinea–Indonesia 309,000 800,000

Borneo Indonesia–Malaysia–Brunei 283,400 734,000

Madagascar Indian Ocean 226,658 587,041

Baffin Island Northwest Territories, Can. 195,928 507,451

Sumatra Indonesia 167,600 434,000

Honshu Japan 87,805 227,414

Victoria Island Northwest Territories, Can. 83,897 217,291

Great Britain United Kingdom 83,698 216,777

Ellesmere Island Northwest Territories, Can. 75,767 196,236

Celebes Indonesia 69,100 179,000

South Island New Zealand 58,676 151,971

Java Indonesia 49,000 126,900

North Island New Zealand 44,204 114,489

Newfoundland (Newfoundland and Labrador) Canada 42,031 108,860

Cuba Caribbean Sea 40,519 104,945

Luzon Philippines 40,420 104,688

Iceland North Atlantic Ocean 39,699 102,819

Mindanao Philippines 36,537 94,630

Ireland Ireland–U.K. 32,589 84,406

Hokkaido Japan 30,144 78,073

*Area given may include small adjoining islands. Conversions for rounded figures are rounded to the nearest hundred.